Jan 28, 2011

Friday's Notes

by Cliopatria

Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), identifies"The 12 Worst Colleges For Free Speech," Huffington Post, 27 January, and explains how they earned the distinction.

Check out this Scratchpad Wiki of History Journal Response Times. Based on the limited record, the Journal of African History and Speculum seem like good ones to avoid. Hat tip.

Michael Dirda,"Sociology at its most Dickensian," Washington Post, 26 January, reviews Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's new, abbreviated edition of Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor.

Timothy Snyder asks"Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Was Worse?" NYRBlog, 27 January.

More Comments:

Jonathan Jarrett - 1/29/2011

So would I. I try and keep track of such things when I publish. Speculum is a problem case, because it is the absolute pinnacle of medieval studies in the USA, the place everyone wants to be published, so is massively over-subscribed. But a friend who submitted there lately tentatively asked after his piece after four months and was told that "six months was the minimum response time". How the hell do you enforce that? Is it just protective realism? Who knows.

Chris Bray - 1/28/2011

Great! Would love to see a similar page about how long journals sit on accepted articles before publication.